Paul Ramsey looks at the history of mapping companies in the US takes a stab at who might become the big thing. Spoiler: Could it be Amazon? Will be interesting to loop back to this one in a year or two.

(Who will be) America’s Next Big Mapping Company?
When talking to government audiences, I like to point out that the largest national mapping agency in the world resides in a building decorated like a hypertrophic kindergarten, in Mountain View, California. This generally gets their attention. The second most important year in my career in geospat…